Nature And The Environment

Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Racism In and Against China
22 Apr 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has resuscitated the old “yellow peril” canard to its fullest extent, revealing deep xenophobia and racist intent against China.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
U.S. Response to COVID-19 Equals Genocide for Blacks, but “Progressive” Leaders Offer Nothing But Words
22 Apr 2020
AOC and Bernie Sanders made public condemnations of the corporate bailout but did little in the way of resistance.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
I had a nightmare (For friend/fellow Poet Genny Lim)
22 Apr 2020
I had a nightmare that down in Mississippi, its governor having his lips dripping with words of Social Darwinism, Herd immunity and Mengele Medicine,
João Costa Vargas and Ana Flauzina
Antiblackness of the Pandemic in the US and Brazil
22 Apr 2020
At the heart of health disparities is antiblackness, a social code that renders Black people disposable.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Joshua Bennett’s “Being Property Once Myself”
22 Apr 2020
Black thought is environmental thought and Black Studies is, at its core, an ecological critique.
Vijay Prashad, Weiyan Zhu, and Du Xiaojun
Truth and Propaganda About Coronavirus
22 Apr 2020
It is unclear if China could have done anything different as it faced an unknown virus.
Pierre Labossiere
Resisting Covid-19 in Haiti
22 Apr 2020
There are only around 124 intensive care unit beds and less than 100 ventilators for a population of about 11 million.
Don Fitz
Cuba: From AIDS, Dengue, and Ebola to COVID-19
22 Apr 2020
Before Cuba experienced its first COVID-!9 case it had already updated a plan to prevent and control the disease.
Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Mike Davis On Pandemics, Super-capitalism and the Struggles of Tomorrow
22 Apr 2020
Capitalist globalization means accepting a permanent triage of humanity and dooming part of the human race to eventual extinction.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of April 20, 2020
20 Apr 2020
Covid-19 and the Black Working Class